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Flood Watch 3, NWS San Diego, CA

July 31, 2022Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flood watch at Jul 31, 2022, 2:01 AM PDT for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Jul 31, 2022, 10:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 2022, 2:01 AM PDT (09:01 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 31, 2022, 10:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jul 31, 2022, 8:20 PM PDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Flood severity
None

Counties Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2022-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2022-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jul 30, 9:35 PM PDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 9:35 PM PDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 5:14 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino3 hr
Jul 30, 5:21 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino3 hr
Jul 30, 5:59 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino2 hr
Jul 30, 6:11 PM PDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSGXRiverside, San Bernardino97 min
Jul 31, 11:24 AM PDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSGXSan Bernardino4 hr
Jul 31, 12:13 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGX62 min
Jul 31, 12:56 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino3 hr
Jul 31, 1:21 PM PDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSGXSan Bernardino3 hr
Jul 31, 1:37 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino3 hr
Jul 31, 3:29 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino2 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.